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Also by Jess Kidd:

Little Spark, February 2027
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Murder at the Spirit Lounge, June 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Murder at Gulls Nest, March 2026
Trade Paperback
Murder at Gulls Nest, April 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Night Ship, August 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Night Ship, August 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Things in Jars, October 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
Things in Jars, February 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Mr. Flood's Last Resort, March 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)

MURDER AT GULLS NEST
By: Jess Kidd

Atria Books
April 2025
On Sale: April 8, 2025
336 pages
ISBN: 1668034034
EAN: 9781668034033
Kindle: B0CW8F28XD
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Historical | Mystery Amateur Sleuth

From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who “is so good it isn’t fair” (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears.

I believe every one of us at Gulls Nest is concealing some kind of secret.

1954: When her former novice’s dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her vows. Haunted by a line in Frieda’s letter, Nora arrives at Gulls Nest, a charming hotel in Gore-on-Sea in Kent.

A seaside town, a place of fresh air and relaxed constraints, is the perfect place for a new start. Nora hides her identity and pries into the lives of her fellow guests. But when a series of bizarre murders rattles the occupants of Gulls Nest it’s time to ask if a dark past can ever really be left behind.